I have been reading a lot about Comino’s GPU miner and finally got the chance to review it. As soon as I learned that it was the supposed “ultimate home mining solution,” I decided to leave the white gloves in the office and bring her home.

At first, I was a little bit scared of the size of the device, but considering that the 8 GPUs are liquid cooled and 2 PSUs are air cooled, it’s understandable why the device would be so big. That said, it’s still 4-5 times smaller than a comparable air-cooled rig. Read more...

Steve Wozniak has been in the technology industry for a long time, and he has seen it all. He was there during the dotcom era, and he believes that blockchain is similar to the dotcom bubble. Wozniak, who founded Apple with Steve Jobs four decades ago and has watched it become the biggest tech company in the world, believes that blockchain has the potential to transform the world. He is especially optimistic about Ethereum, whose ability to host decentralized applications gives it an edge over other blockchain projects, he said.Read more...

Following an update to its App Store review guidelines, Apple has explicitly halted the design and development of iOS applications which can be used for direct cryptocurrency mining. Still, off-device cloud-based mining is not affected by the changes.

Direct Cryptocurrency Mining is a No-Go

Even though there’s no official record of when the update in the developer’s guidelines took place, Apple made it pretty clear that it is directly targeting the prevention of cryptocurrency mining.

In its updated guidelines, Apple instructs any developer who wants to list his or her application on the App Store to refrain from producing software which runs unrelated background processes: Read more...

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is hopeful that Bitcoin will become the single currency of the Internet. In this regard, Wozniak joins Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter and Square, in his enthusiasm for Bitcoin becoming the single worldwide currency.

Bitcoin: The Native Currency of the Internet

A growing number of influential voices are claiming that Bitcoin should become the currency of the Internet.

Most recently, during a CNBC interview, Wozniak conveyed his sentiment that Bitcoin should become the currency of the Internet, affirming Bitcoin’s purity and power. During the interview, Wozniak said: Read more...

It’s probably been a while since you pulled out a wad of cash to purchase an iPhone or an Apple Watch. The transition to a cashless society has been in motion for some time now – in developed countries, at least. But if your go-to payment method is pulling out the plastic, well, that’s on its way out as well.

Alternative Payment Methods (APMs) are on the rise around the world. That basically covers any means of payment that differs from the traditional credit card schemes. E-wallets, bank transfers, mobile payment apps… they’re all growing in popularity and are set to take over credit card payments globally sometime next year. Read more...

After Calendar 2, a popular scheduling app in the Mac App Store, was updated with the ability to mine the Monero cryptocurrency on users’ devices for the developer’s benefit, it quickly disappeared — but why?

Gone, but Not Forgotten

Recently, an update to the Calendar 2 app afforded developer Qbix the ability to mine Monero — a popular, privacy-centric cryptocurrency — with users’ computing power. The mining function only kicked in, however, if users chose to forgo the $ 18 full-app purchase or $ 1 monthly subscription fee, both of which granted access to the app’s full functionality. Read more...

Bread Wallet Enables Full Bitcoin Cash Support for iOS

The firm Bread announced on March 7 that the wallet company has added full BCH support for its iOS mobile wallet platform. This past August when the BCH chain was born, two weeks later the Bread team released a one-time extraction tool for users who wanted to extract their coins. The company says that many Bread users utilized the tool, but those who didn’t still have BCH held invisibly on their mobile wallets.Read more...

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has long been a fan of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency, citing their purity as attractive in a manipulative world. In fact, he’s added to his already sizable fortune with some shrewd Bitcoin trades. He too, however, has fallen victim to fraud.

‘It Was That Easy!’

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is a big fan of Bitcoin — or, at least, he used to be.

Wozniak first bought into Bitcoin when it was worth $ 700, before flipping it for massive profits during the digital currency’s monumental run-up.

Woz found Bitcoin and digital currencies attractive, thanks to its decentralized and apolitical properties. He explained to ET GBS: Read more...